Sunday, 19 April 2015

"In looking for people to hire,
you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they
don't have the first, the other two will kill you."— Warren Buffet, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

Interview is all about interaction,
communication and negotiation. Everyone undergoes interview one way or the
other in their personal, professional or social life. In fact, there are no
right and wrong answers to many questions. What is essential is to present a positive
attitude to achieve your goals and objectives. The list of employment interview
questions is very lengthy. Here are a few interview questions with answers that
help you analyze, assess and answer well both in life and employment interview:

Q:
What motivates you to get up from your bed?

A:
Express what touches you the most in your life.Here is an ideal answer. I am
passionate about acquiring and sharing knowledge. I read lot of books, author books and
contribute articles to international journals and magazines. Additionally, I
share my knowledge on various burning issues regularly on social media
including my blogs. I am passionate about making a difference in the lives of
others. My vision is to build one million students as global leaders by 2030. http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.in/2014/12/professor-m-s-raos-vision-2030-one_31.htmlI shall not stop until I accomplish my
vision. Additionally, I strive for excellence. Whenever I author books, I
revise my draft many times to create the best content. Every time I read the
draft, I include new ideas and insights and eliminate irrelevant ones to deliver
my best. When I teach and train I deliver my best. I work for satisfaction, not
for recognition. I want to provide meaning to my life. Above all, the satisfaction of seeing the
light go on for other people is what gets me out of bed in the morning.

Q:
How would one of your friends describe you?

A:
Take a few strengths
and weaknesses to describe yourself. My friends say that I am a visionary,
strategist and philanthropist. They add that I am a hard worker, committed and
dedication person. Also, they say that I am a very good time manager. They
often criticize me as a perfectionist, straight forward person and I trust
others blindly to finally get cheated by them.

Q:
Why the vision of the company is important to you?

A:
Vision is about where
you want to go. It is different from mission which shows how you want to go in
your life. In fact, vision is the first thing to drive individuals and organizations
forward. Only when the vision of the organization and employees are well
aligned, the organizations will be able to achieve all-round productivity and
performance.

Vision is company specific. Hence,
whenever you go for an interview, find out both vision and mission of the
company and offer your responses in such a way that your ideas and values are
aligned with the vision of the company. Remember, nobody wants a square peg in
a round hole and a round peg in a square hole. Everyone wants a round peg in a
round hole and a square peg in a square to ensure cultural fit and values. When
you look at Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.com, he emphasizes on organizational
culture to ensure cultural fit to achieve organizational excellence and
effectiveness.

To conclude, when you want to achieve
success in your personal, professional and social life, find out the
expectations and aspirations of others and reciprocate accordingly with
cultural fit and values to achieve an amazing success in your life.

“When I interview somebody, I look at
their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many
times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to
hire.” — Joe Pantoliano

This is a nonprofit blog to share
Professor M.S.Rao’s passion and vision to build one million students as global
leaders by 2030. Please don't cut articles from my blog and redistribute by
email or post to the web. The use of this material is free provided copyright
is acknowledged and reference or link is made to the Blog http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.in.This material may not be sold, or published
in any form, or used in the provision of business services to a third party
without permission.

“Inside of you is a smart and powerful
dynamic and capable self-confident, alive and alert fabulous diva! Let her come
out to play the world is waiting for you.” —Louise Hay

Teenage is a delicate age where mind
oscillates between good and bad abruptly. It is highly indecisive, emotional
and sensitive. Most teenage girls fail to understand this stage and fall into
short-term temptations landing in troubles and crises causing problems for them
and their parents. Parents find it tough to understand and persuade their
teenage daughters.

Teen
Girls and their Challenges

Nowadays, girls spend lots of money
for looks and appearance than to prove their substance. They care for what
others care about them rather than what they care about themselves. Their
expectations are high, and get stressed and depressed easily when they fail to
accomplish their expectations. Internally, they are more worried about fear of
rejection and criticism. They go to any extent to be accepted by peers and
colleagues which often leads to compromising certain aspects including their
character.

Presently girls are influenced by peer
pressure. They imitate negative aspects more than positive aspects from others.
They are more conscious about their appearance than their intelligence. They are
more interested in exploring bad than good. They get into wrong zones quickly landing
into troubles and regretting in later part of their lives. Self-esteem is very
low among girls especially if they are not attractive. They get depressed
easily if boys don’t look at them. They crave for male attention. Here are some
shocking research findings:

In school today the most
important currency is “hot monitor”. Girls will exchange anything and
everything for validation about their appearance.

Sex is a commodity you exchange
for popularity and acceptance.

Campus is a misogynistic bear pit
where only the strong walk away unharmed.

There has been a 12% rise in
under – 16-year-olds with drink related problems. Six children a day will
be admitted to hospital with drink-related issues. Binge drinking is more
prevalent among girls and 25% of girls aged 15/16 admit to binge drinking
at least once a week.

In Africa being born a girl means
you are more likely to get raped than learn to read; in China being born a
girl increases your chances of being trafficked as boys are prized in a
nation where a single child policy is favored; and if you are girl
conceived in India you are lucky to even be born as an illegal dowry
system makes you unaffordable and dispensable and you are just as likely
to end up a discarded foetus at the bottom of a disused well.

25% of all daily search engine requests
are for pornography. 96% of the people doing the searching are male. Every
39 minutes a new pornography video is created in the USA to support this
demand. The industry is worth over $97 billion worldwide, more than the
combined revenue of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Yahoo! eBay, Apple, Netflix
and Earthlink.

The Lab surveyed 1,000, 15-19
year-old girls in 2005 about their ambitions; 63% said they would rather
be a nude or semi-nude glamour model than a nurse, a doctor or a teacher.

Girls are now three times more
likely than boys to suffer with depression and anxiety attacks.

Sex is now seen as a commodity
not an intimate act. Both girls and boys are not concerned about the
number of sexual partners they clock up, compounded by reality TV
programmes like The Magaluf Weekender: Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents;
Geordie Shore and so on.

Nearly 70% of female university
students have experienced verbal and nonverbal harassment in and around
their institution.

Researchers[1]
have found that reality TV has six key messages for girls. Take a deep breath..

3.Sex
is primarily a currency that you exchange for love, attention and power.

4.It
is normal to have sex with people you don’t even know or especially like.

5.The
world is a scary, lonely, dangerous and competitive place. Better get going –
you might lose the race.

6.The
answer to all life’s problems is to buy something.

Girls crave for attention, recognition
and validation. They weigh their popularity based on how many boyfriends they
have. Their self-esteem is very low currently. They want to hit limelight at
any cost compromising value system. This trend needs to be checked immediately by
parents and society.

Depression
in Teen Girls a Disease

Mental illness has become a major disease
globally. Research shows that women suffer from depression more than men. They
are more stressed than men. Knowing this research helps people guard from this
global menace. Although technology connected people and made globe into a small
village, it threw lots of other challenges. Presently people don’t interact
physically. They appreciate interacting virtually especially through phones and
skypes. The technology has changed the world leading to more of mental diseases
than physical diseases. It a challenge people must understand and overcome it
successfully.

Solution

Here are some solutions to enhance
self-esteem in teenage girls:

You must love yourself first
before being loved by others.

Believe in yourself. You are the
best, and the gift from God. Be proud that nobody can be like you.

Emphasize on attitude, not
appearance.

Surround with positive friends
who provide you constructive feedback and support you wholeheartedly.

Look for satisfaction, not recognition
and approval. Remember, approval comes at a cost while recognition comes
with consistent positive efforts.

Parents must take initiative to
interact with their children to boost their confidence. Physical intimacy
is more important so called virtual intimacy including social networking
sites like Facebook.

It is sad to note that teenage girls
in future will have depression, emotional problems, breakups, heart burns,
suicides, mental stress and trauma. Only solution is to love your family and ensure
physical intimacy.

The onus lies with parents and
educators to build self-esteem in teenage girls. The pressure to get noticed
and the pressure to prove is higher in teenage girls. Hence, parents must guide
them at home, and educators must counsel them properly in educational
institutions to boost their self-esteem.

Conclusion

The Future Foundation interviewed 500
girls across the UK and concluded girls fail to reach their full potential
because they are suffering from low self-esteem about how they look. Girls must remember that they are valued for
their mind, not simply how ‘hot’ they are because when their hotness goes away,
it is their character and intelligence stays on.Girls must shift their minds from ambition to
inspiration; parents must shift their minds from competition to collaboration;
and society must shift its mind from money to values. An integrated effort from
all stakeholders including teenage girls, parents, educators, educational
institutions, non-governmental organizations is an imperative to address this
social menace globally.

The need for writing this article on
teenage girls is that I am a conscious citizen caring for students and
teenagers globally. Hence, I took time off from my busy schedules of authoring
a book titled ‘21 Success Sutras for CEOs’ to write this article to provide
right direction to girls who grope in darkness. Additionally, the satisfaction
of seeing the light go on for other people is what gets me out of bed in the
morning.

This article is dedicated to all teenagers
suffering from self-esteem to build their confidence to dream and achieve big
in their lives.

“Teenage years are hard. And, having
taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on
teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage
girls.” —Rob Thomas

This is a nonprofit blog to share
Professor M.S.Rao’s passion and vision to build one million students as global
leaders by 2030. Please don't cut articles from my blog and redistribute by
email or post to the web. The use of this material is free provided copyright
is acknowledged and reference or link is made to the Blog http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.in.This material may not be sold, or published
in any form, or used in the provision of business services to a third party
without permission.

“The purpose of leadership is to
change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those
values more fully.” ―Stan Slap

It is essential to instill patriotism
in citizens to build strong and respectable nations in the world. Boys are busy
with their girlfriends and girls are busy with their boyfriends. People are
busy with their routine challenges. In fact, nobody has time to think about
development of their nations. Hence, someone must take initiative in this
regard. Hence, I address this issue in
this post. Here are some questions to respond:

Do you stand and watch when accident
takes place on the road?

Do you talk loudly in public places?

Do you offer bribe when caught by
traffic police?

Do you encourage corruption?

Do you shield criminals?

Are you a silent spectator when
atrocities on women taking place right under your nose?

Are you part of the problem than the solution?

If answers to the above questions are
yes, it is time for you to change your attitude and reinvent as a responsible
and healthy citizen. It is time to get into the positive zone of Indians to
build a strong nation. Let us start from students who are tomorrow’s leaders.

How many students think of building
India as a great nation? If you are one among them, this nation calls for your
services. Do you know why India is still
a developing nation despite being rich in natural and human resources? It is
basically because we are part of the problem rather than part of the solution. We
often talk about individuals and issues than to explore ideas to resolve vexing
issues. We are more of spectators than actors. We want to play safe. We are
more of preachers than practitioners.We
are not punctual, and our commitment levels are low. We fail to present positive attitude and above
all, we fail to dream big.

Hello Indian! Come forward. Accept
responsibility. Take care of your family and society. Then only, India as a
nation will grow globally. When good citizens like you join, we can make a huge
difference to the society. Everything starts from one person and that one
person is YOU.Remember, one person who
can change the world is YOU!

Let us take a pledge to acquire
positive, right and strong attitude; enhance our commitment levels; work
together to build a strong and great India. Mera Bharat Mahan Hai! Jai Hind!

"Servant leadership is easy for
people with high self-esteem. Such people have no problem giving credit to
others and have no problem listening to other people for ideas. They have no
problem in building other people up and they don't feel other people's success
threatens them in any way. . . . Servant leadership builds self-esteem and
encourages Individual growth while obtaining the organization's
objectives." ―Ken Blanchard

This is a nonprofit blog to share
Professor M.S.Rao’s passion and vision to build one million students as global
leaders by 2030. Please don't cut articles from my blog and redistribute by
email or post to the web. The use of this material is free provided copyright is
acknowledged and reference or link is made to the Blog http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.in.This material may not be sold, or published
in any form, or used in the provision of business services to a third party
without permission.